*Many skiers and Park City regulars were perplexed or even a bit unnerved. Some thought the whole effort was nutty. Jokes were flying about agents skiing on the public dime, but nobody seemed to mind. "This is a first for the bureau," FBI recruiter Carol Covert told agents as they lined up at the base of a chair lift with a new, gleaming 40-foot command truck parked nearby. "So remember, ski and recruit!" she declared. "If this goes well, we'll do it at other resorts." The agents dispersed across seven mountain tops, with a top elevation of 10,000 feet. Skiers can be chatty on chair rides, where agents were doing some of the recruiting.

*Anyone who snapped photos of agents kicking up the 8 inches of fresh powder here could turn in the images for trinkets, including FBI calculators, patches and pins.